Hi Chris, et al. I have been seeing them around still in good numbers. They are late fall and early spring migrants. they typically are still around into November and stragglers, especially in the south, are found into December. I remember a couple of years ago about a half dozen were found along the Minnesota River just before Christmas on the Bloomington count. I also remember sighting one on January 1st down in Wabasha county. I don't think we counted it because we could not eliminate the possibility that it was might have been a Townsends Solitair.
They usually start arriving back in with warm weather in March, although historically they use to be seen in February. I believe that my earliest sighting was about March 1st on an unseasonably warm day near Miesville. Steve Weston on Quiggley Lake in Eagan, MN [email protected] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Fagyal" <[email protected]> To: "'MN Ornithologist Union Listserve'" <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2005 5:03 PM Subject: [mou] Late Eastern Bluebird? > All, > > I just spied a juvenile Eastern Bluebird in my backyard sitting in my > Mountain Ash. Isn't it a bit late for it to be hanging around? > > Chris > > _______________________________________________ > mou-net mailing list > [email protected] > http://cbs.umn.edu/mailman/listinfo/mou-net >
